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TESTIMONIALS

WHAT W.L. GORE HAS NEVER RECEIVED IN 50 YEARS

Here is one more testimonial about a Wiggy product to go with the many thousands that have preceded it.

TV BLANKET

It’s not just the incredible product, it’s the people behind it!

My wife shocked me a few years ago when she started stealing my higher-end, non-issue woobie. With her birthday a little over week away and us heading to our cottage getaway, it came at me like a flash. I wanted to do it right for her, and Wiggy’s was the first place that came to mind. When I saw the tasteful yet subdued (non-mil scheme) TV blanket, there was no doubt left. But... then I started looking at shipping and my gut churned. The standard USPS ground had me worried that it would run a few days too late for our trip. Express delivery was going to cost more than the blanket, itself. I knew I was taking a chance, but I placed the order online and wrote a respectful request that the shipping folks do what they could. A day before our trip, it showed up, and wouldn’t you know it, there was a note between the Wiggy’s elves asking that it be hustled along as a birthday gift. Seriously, that speaks volumes to me. Thanks, guys. Most importantly, she loves it. The quilting alone makes a tremendous difference over the competition’s jungle blanket. Like I mentioned, the colors are a lot less overtly military style than any of my own poncho liners or jungle blankets, and legit fit right in to our somewhat earthy toned living room, but still would do quite nicely in a field setting. The quality is crystal clear as soon as you look at the stitch work and materials. Like magic, this thing radiates heat, by the way. Wiggy’s just earned a loyal lifetime customer. Thanks again.

– Jeff K

Jerry,

I just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that I have made another customer for you. This past weekend my girlfriend’s teenage daughter went on her annual fall camping trip up in New Hampshire with her group of childhood friends. Before she left, she told me how in years past the trips were sometimes miserable due to cold and wet weather. This year the forecast called for temps down in the 40’s F, with rain a good possibility. If it were me, I would have just taken my FRTSS overbag. But for her I didn’t want to take any chances. Being 16, skinny as a rail, and having a minor heart condition that contributes to poor blood circulation, I gave her my Wiggy’s mummy style zero-degree Superlight bag to use. As expected, the weather was bad, but she told me that she was able to enjoy the trip because your bag ensured that she stayed warm, dry, and slept soundly through the night. I told her that she could keep the bag, but apparently olive drab isn’t fashionable enough. Ha! She has her eye on a new purple one, so I will be getting it for her for Christmas. Thanks again to you, and the outstanding products that you and your team make.

Thomas Walsh

Northern Virginia

The following quote comes from the article I read about gore celebrating 50 years.

“While widely known for its use in the highly recognized GORE-TEX Brand waterproof yet breathable apparel, the first such apparel of its kind”.

I did not realize that I have been presenting to the world at large the true information about the goretex product not being able to work, maybe that is why they have grown as they have.

To review; when you sweat what comes out of your pore is VAPOR, that vapor condenses and coats your skin surface cooling you on a hot day. It then evaporates from your skin or a light shirt you may be wearing.

If you are wearing a shirt and a rain garment that is made from nylon fabric which has been laminated to a goretex ptfe film and you are mildly active such as hiking all of the vapor coming out of your body must pass through your shirt and then pass through the goretex laminated lined jacket material.

As for the rain getting into the garment, I think it is minimal at best, but it does happen as we know.

As for the sweat getting out of the garment that will never take place because it cannot. Even if you were to have enough heat to keep the sweat in a vapor state so it goes through the shirt as a vapor when it reaches the goretex laminated nylon it will condense on the inside of the fabric. The microscopic holes they talk about that will allow the moisture out as a vapor will need air pressure forcing the vapor through those holes. In the demonstration that Bobby Gore showed at the outdoor retailer show in 1967 he had boiling water under a ptfe film showing the steam going through the film. Who sweats like that? What he should have showed was a laminated layer of nylon and of course it would have blown up like a balloon. The reason is the steam would not have gotten out. Sleight of hand trick.

Back to your climb, now that it is raining the temperature has dropped and the garment is being pressed against your body and the resulting action that now takes place is you getting a chill, why? because the sweat that you though was getting out of the nylon laminated to goretex did NOT allow that to happen. And you thought you had a rain jacket that was waterproof and “breathable”. P.T Barnum once convinced several wealthy men to sponsor him on an expedition to South America to find the rare animal species known as the “reets”. Six months later when he returned the men were waiting for him at the dock. He came down the gang plank leading a steer. The men looked at the animal and said that is a steer and he agreed and then told them “reets” spelled backwards is “steer”. One and all who have purchased any garment or boot made with a goretex laminated fabric have been “taken” by a trickster. You see I believe that Bobby gore and all gore employees know that the idea of an inanimate material is not capable of being waterproof and breathable.

Gore is a 3 plus billion-dollar company and what portion of that revenue is just the textile area that we are familiar with I have no idea but whatever it is its revenues received by deceiving the ultimate consumer. In my opinion it is deception because I strongly believe the gore employee base from ceo to every salesman knows that the waterproof breathable concept is bogus. If they don’t then they should study physics and human physiology.

I remember years ago they had a shower demonstration where you could go into the shower wearing one of their parkas and the shower water didn’t get in. Then they had a boot flexing in water showing no water got in. However aside from bobby’s first demonstration showing how steam from boiling water went through the film not the three-layer laminate they have never done a demonstration of the vapor coming out of a product; jacket, boots etc.

I for one would have liked to see someone on a tread mill or stationary bike generating sweat that would come out of the garment, but they will never do that. The laughingstock product is the Simms waterproof breathable waders!

Today's article leads with two testimonials, that is more for Wiggy’s in one day than gore has gotten in 50 years.

Anyone can search the internet and find dozens of very unfavorable comments about goretex not working as well as videos.